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" For I could never yet by mixing only two primary Colours produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal distances in the circumference I do not know, but of four or five I do not much question but it may. "
Visual Color and Color Mixture: The Fundamental Color Space - Page 111
by Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 218 pages
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Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal diftances in the circumference I do not know, but of four or five I do not much queftion but it may. But thefe are Curiofities of little or no moment to the underftanding the Phenoroena...
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pages
...produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal diftances in the circumference I do not know, but of four or five I do not rmich queftion but it may. But thefe are Curiofities of little or no moment to the underfcanding the...
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The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 1, 1846-1862

James Clerk Maxwell - 1990 - 836 pages
...observes: 'For I could never yet by mixing only two primary colours produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal...curiosities of little or no moment to the understanding the Phaenomena of nature. For in all whites produced by nature, there uses to be a mixture of all sorts...
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The Science of Color

Steven K. Shevell - 2003 - 350 pages
...Colour. For I could never yet by mixing only two primary Colours produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal...Curiosities of little or no moment to the understanding the Phaenomena of Nature. For in all whites produced by Nature, there uses to be a mixture of all sorts...
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Thomas Young Natural Philosopher 1773-1829

Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pages
...that he 'could never yet by mixing only two primary colours produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal...not know, but of four or five I do not much question that it may.'* These researches were first published in 1704. Interest in the perception of colour...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1849 - 582 pages
...expressly, "I could never yet by mixing only two primary colours produce a perfect white. Whether it may be compounded of a mixture of three taken at equal distances in the circumference [of the figure of a circular spectrum which he is describing] I do not know; but of four or five I...
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